| Sculpin | |
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| Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Cottoidei |
| Superfamily: | Cottoidea Gill, 1889 |
A sculpin is a type of fish that belongs to the superfamily Cottoidea in the order Scorpaeniformes. As of 2006, this superfamily contains 7 families, 94 genera, and 387 species.
Sculpins occur in many types of habitat, including ocean and freshwater zones. They live in rivers, submarine canyons, kelp forests, and shallow littoral habitat types, such as tidepools.
Families and subfamilies
Families include:
- Jordaniidae Starks, 1895
- Rhamphocottidae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883
- Scorpaenichthyidae Jordan & Evermann, 1898
- Agonidae Swainson, 1839
- Hemilepidontinae Jordan & Evermann, 1898
- Hemitripterinae Gill, 1856
- Bothragoninae Lindberg, 1971
- Hypsagoninae Gill, 1861
- Anoplagoninae Gill, 1861
- Brachyopsinae Jordan & Evermann, 1898
- Agoninae Swainson, 1839
- Bathyagoninae Lindberg, 1971
- Cottidae Bonaparte, 1831
- Cottinae Bonaparte, 1831
- Comephorinae Bonaparte 1850
- Abyssocottinae Berg, 1907
- Psychrolutidae Günther, 1861
- Cottunculinae Regan, 1913
- Psychrolutinae Günther, 1861
- Bathylutichthyidae Balushkin & Voskoboinikova, 1990
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References
- Mamoru Yabe (1985). "Comaprative Osteology and Myology of the Superfamily Cottoidea Pisces:Scorpaeniformes), and its Phylogenetic Classification". Memoirs off the Faculty of Fishes Hokkaido University. 32 (1): 1–130. S2CID 81835479.
- ^ Kane, E. A. and T. E. Higham. (2012). Life in the flow lane: differences in pectoral fin morphology suggest transitions in station-holding demand across species of marine sculpin. Archived 2020-10-22 at the Wayback Machine Zoology (Jena) 115(4), 223–32.
- ^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 467–495. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
- Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Cottoidea | |